When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

Laws are like sausages. You sleep far better the less you know about how they are made.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Life has taught me to forgive much, but to seek forgiveness still more.

Even the most favorable outcome of the war will never lead to the decomposition of the main forces of Russia, which is based on millions of Russian ... The latter, even if they break up international treaties, just as quickly re-connect with each other, like pieces of a particle of mercury.

You can do everything with bayonets, but you are not able to sit on them